Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Spaniards to clash in second round of Marbella


Virginia Ruano Pascual and Anabel Medina Garrigues will clash in the second round of the 500,000 dollar tournament of Marbella in Spain.
The unseeded Pascual won in three sets against Tathiana Garbin from Italy 6:1 2:6 6:1 for 1 hour and 48 minutes. In the first set Virginia cruised breaking freely to win it 6:1. However Garbin fought back breaking twice to win the second set 6:2. The third again was an onesided afair when Ruano Pascual broke twice to win it 6:1 and mark her place in the round of 16.
Her opponent was decided in the next match. For it the stadium court got very big audience. The first set was quick for both players but in it Medina Garrigues destroyed her opponent 6:1. In the second set Medina broke for 2:0 but Yakimova didn`t want to leave so soon and rebroke. Then she led by 2:3 but that was all she could do against the number 3 seed. Anabel wining the next 4 games in a roll to win against Anastasya Yakimova from Belarus 6:1 6:3.

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